Three of Korea's most exciting makers — a heritage soju house, a beloved traditional-liquor brewery and a Jeju craft distillery.
The Chungcheong region's iconic soju house. In 2023 Sunyang launched Korea's lightest soju — 14.9%, zero sugar, the lowest calories in the country — and followed it with Korea's first oak-aged soju, which sold half a million bottles in its first three days.
One of Korea's most beloved traditional-liquor houses, reimagining rice wine for a new generation. The playful Simsool sparkling line meets Bokbunja-eum — a black raspberry wine from Gochang's sea-breeze berries, fermented with no added flavours or colours and once served as a presidential toast wine.
Founded together with some 130 mandarin farmers in Seogwipo to give Jeju's fruit a second life. A master distiller with 50 years of craft distils hand-peeled mandarins into Misang 25 — a clean spirit finished with oak-aged mandarin distillate.